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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. For the beast only measures by the day and the hour, as far as its eye can see. Give it a meadow deep with grass, and it is perfectly happy, but when good men get measuring by the day, and by the hour, and by the lifetime here...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. I felt a heart-pain. I felt my whole nature go amiss, as if there had been calculi causing the deepest possible misery in my reins.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. Judging as the beast judges, that can only see the little grass around itself, and fattens itself, knowing nothing of the shambles, and of the butcher’s knife that is being sharpened to kill it there. “So,” says the psalmist, “I was like that, I forgot about the future, I did not judge...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. I saw no farther than a goose. Like a beast that cannot look into the future, I judged these men by today—by the pastures in which they fed, and the fatness which they gathered there. “I was as a beast before thee.” Now notice the splendid connection of these two verses. I will read...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless — This phrase is most delightful, coming in connection with his previous confession: “I was as a beast before thee. Nevertheless” — Psa_73:23. I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. That is your portion also, Christian. However few your pounds, however short your supplies, you are continually with God, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
; Psa_73:28. Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Oh, what a mercy this is for believers! If we are ever so poor, we are continually with God. What if we be chastened every morning? It is clear that we must be with God then, for a chastening God must be near. Psa_73:23. Thou hast holden me by my right hand. “Even when thou didst whip me. Everywhere thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. What a strange mixture a man is! And a godly man is the strangest conglomerate of all. He is a beast, and yet continually with God. View him from one side, he is ignorant: view him from the other, and he hath an unction from the Holy One, and he knows all things. View...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. There is where your chief possession lies, locked up in that which is marked “Afterward.” Not today, possibly not tomorrow, but “afterward” is your inheritance: “afterward thou wilt receive me to glory.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. Now he finds in God his riches, his joy, his prosperity, his portion.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. I, the fool that envied fools, yet “thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. Here is the Christian’s heavenly and earthly portion and treasure. He has his God, both here and hereafter; and this is better than all that can fall to the lot of the worldling.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. Now he has got out of the temptation. He is not going to seek for prosperity that he may rival the wicked in their wealth. No! He sees that, in having God, he has all he wants. Even though he should continually be plagued all the day long, and chastened every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. That is, setting their hearts on unlovely things, and forgetting to love God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. To love the world, to love riches, to love sin, to love self, this is to be unfaithful to our marriage covenant with God; let such conduct never be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My flesh and my heart faileth: I see what a poor thing I am. I allowed my flesh and my heart to get the mastery over me, and I got caught in this trap.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. A strong word, but none too forcible; for every heart that seeks delight away from God is an unchaste heart. It has got away from true purity even for a moment in pouring out its...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. The Psalm ends jubilantly, as it began, though part of it had been in a minor key.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works. Thus, you see, the psalmist went down to the depths, but he came up again all right, and his heart was made glad in the Lord his God. So may it be with any of us who, like him, have been envious at the foolish, when we have seen the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 73; Psa_37:1-10.